Bob Dickerson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bob Dickerson is involved.

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Lyon, Caroline, Bob Dickerson and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv 2001 The segmentation of speech and its implications for the emergence of language structure Evolution of Communication 4:2, pp. 161–182 | Article

This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete constituents which can be the building blocks of a hierarchical system. By… read more